1975 in animation

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Events in 1975 in animation.

Events

January

• January 5:
  • The first episode of Dog of Flanders is broadcast, an adaptation of Ouida's novel A Dog of Flanders.[1] [2]
  • The first episode of Paddington is broadcast, based on the eponymous children's books by Michael Bond. [3]
• January 11: An animated TV special of the 2000 Year Old Man sketch is broadcast on CBS, with Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner reprising their characters. The animation is produced by Leo Salkin Films. [4]

March

• March 21: Tomoharu Katsumata and Tim Reid's Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid premiers. [5]

April

• April 1: The first episode of the television series Maya the Honey Bee airs. [6]
• April 3: Monty Python and the Holy Grail premiers, which has several animated intermezzos and combinations of animation with live-action, directed by Terry Gilliam. [7]
• April 8: 47th Academy Awards: Closed Mondays by Will Vinton and Bob Gardiner wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. [8][9]

June

• June 11: Raúl daSilva's Rime of the Ancient Mariner premiers. [10]

July

• July 17: Manuel García Ferré's Trapito premiers. [11]

August

• August 20: Ralph Bakshi's film Coonskin, a combination of animation and live-action, premiers. It flops at the box office due to accusations of racism.[12] It will take decades before it eventually becomes a cult classic and sheds its undeserved bad reputation. [13]
• August 28: Kjell Aukrust's The Pinchcliffe Grand Prix is first released. [14]

September

• September 4: Belgian cartoonist Picha and Boris Szulzinger release their animated feature film debut Tarzoon: Shame of the Jungle, which will become a cult classic. [15] [16]
• September 6:
  • The first episode of The Secret Lives of Waldo Kitty, produced by Filmation, airs. [17]
  • The first episode of Uncle Croc's Block is broadcast, a live-action children's TV show with animated intermezzo's: M*U*S*H, Fraidy Cat and Wacky and Packy. [18]
• September 8: John Hubley's Everybody Rides the Carousel premiers. [19]

October

• October 1: The first episode of Arabian Nights: Sinbad's Adventures airs. [20]
• October 5: The first episode of Grendizer is broadcast. [21][22]
• October 6: The first episode of The Adventures of Pepero airs. [23] [24]
• October 10: The first episode of Bod is broadcast. [25]
• October 15: The first episode of Ikkyū-san airs. [26]
• October 23: Yuri Norstein's Hedgehog in the Fog premiers. [27]

November

• November 9: Sally Cruikshank's Quasi at the Quackadero is released, which will become a cult classic. [28]

December

• December 19: Bob Clampett releases the anthology film Bugs Bunny: Superstar, directed by Larry Jackson, which is the first Looney Tunes package film. The film will attract controversy amongst some of Clampett's colleagues, most obviously Chuck Jones, because Clampett takes credit for many contestable claims. [29] [30]
• December 24: Per Åhlin's Sagan om Karl-Bertil Jonssons julafton is first released, which in Sweden will become an annual Christmas tradition. [31]
• December 25: William Feigenbaum and József Gémes' Hugo the Hippo premiers. [32]

Specific date unknown

• Halas and Batchelor animates the music video for Roger Glover's song Love Is All, in which a singing frog with a guitar gathers animals for a ball in the forest. [33]
• Bill Melendez' Dick Deadeye, or Duty Done premiers, based on designs by Ronald Searle. [34]
• André Leduc and Bernard Longpré's Monsieur Pointu premiers. [35]
• The first episode of Leopold the Cat airs. [36]
• Robert Swarthe's Kick Me premiers. [37]
• Bob Godfrey's Great premiers. [38]

Films released

Main article: List of animated feature films of 1975

Television series

Main article: List of animated television series of 1975

Deaths

January

• January 22: Hazel Sewell, American animator (Walt Disney Company), dies at age 76.[39]

February

• February 23: Frank Smith, American animator and animated film director (Fleischer Studios, UPA, Peanuts animated specials), dies at age 63. [40]

March

• March 2: Salvador Mestres, Spanish animator, film director and comics artist (wrote and directed for Hispano Grafic Films), dies at age 64 or 65.[41]

May

• May 8: Abe Levitow, American animator (Warner Bros. Cartoons, MGM animation, UPA) and director (directed Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol, co-directed The Phantom Tollbooth), dies at age 52. [42]

June

• June 19: Ge Ge Pearson, American actress (second voice of Crusader Rabbit in Crusader Rabbit), dies at age 58.
• July 19: Manny Gould, American animator (Barré Studio, Paramount Studios, Columbia Pictures, Warner Brothers Animation, Ed Graham Productions, DePatie-Freleng Enterprises, Ralph Bakshi), dies at age 71. [43]

October

• October 16: Don Barclay, American actor and caricaturist (voice of the Doorman in Cinderella), dies at age 82.

November

• November 28: Valentina Brumberg, Russian animator and film director (The Tale of Tsar Saltan, The Lost Letter, The Night Before Christmas, It Was I Who Drew the Little Man), dies at age 76.

December

• December 7: Hardie Albright, American actor (voice of adolescent Bambi in Bambi), dies at age 71.
• December 24: Harold Mack, British animator and comics artist (worked for Gaumont British Animation, British Animated Pictures and Marten Toonder's animation studio, established his own animation studio The Anglo-Dutch Group), passes away at the age 67. [44]

See also

• 1975 in anime

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